Re: [PHP] Executing shell commands

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 03:41, Teren wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm trying to write a front end for something and I want to be able
> to execute shell commands. I tried all of the pre-written functions
> and non of them would work. I setup a user that can sudo and then i
> set apache to run as that user. So, what I tried to do is
> shell_exec("sudo -s; reboot;"); but that didn't work, I also tried
> other numerous variations all of which didn't work (also using exec(),
> system(), passthru() ). If any one has any ideas how i can do this,
> please let me know. Thanks

I believe this has been answered quite recently and the large consensus
was to have a daemon (cron or otherwise) check for some status file or
database entry, which when set it would perform the required function.
So for instance to reboot the machine, perhaps a cron job would check
for the existence of /tmp/myFrontEnd/reboot and if found reboot the
machine. Thus the front end would only need to create the file.

HTH,
Rob.
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